In the chronic collection of clear fluid, gentle and continued stimulation of the surface, as by the gum and mercurial plaster, causes gradual decrease by absorption; the causes of the affection being at the same time studiously avoided.
We may instruct with the best intention to suppress, and yet our instruction itself must become a source of stimulation which unnecessarily creates a desire for improper conduct.
For Schopenhauer the cause of dreams is the stimulation of the brain by the internal regions of the organism through the sympathetic nervous system.
In any school for the feeble-minded one finds the apathetic imbecile, who can be kept at work by goading and stimulationof one kind or another, who does not tire especially, but who never works beyond a low level of speed and enthusiasm.
They increase the stimulation that comes from the thing sought and decrease the stimulation that comes from other things.
Even these however passed away and had no successors in the growing intellectual torpor created by obscurantist censorship, and a dreary blank followed which even the stimulation attempted by Philip V could not relieve.
It is only when mastery follows that the fine stimulation of conscious efficiency drowns out all moody vapors.
The result, with the general stimulation of radical thinking that the War involves, will be a profound acceleration of the feminist movement throughout, at least, the democracies of the world.
The intellectual stimulation of the whole world west of China, the break-up of old ideas and development of new ones, was enormous.
The suppression of private war, the higher standards of comfort and security that followed the crusades, and the stimulation of men's minds by the experiences of these expeditions were no doubt necessary preliminary conditions.
These people had long ago been cut off by geographical changes from the rest of the species, and from stimulation and improvement.
It gave no response to stimulation and never revived, a very careful examination later showing that it was quite dead.
On the seventh the grasshopper responded to stimulation by a slight movement of the palpi and the end of the abdomen.
In a like manner it is possible to produce coma and prolonged insensibility by pressure of the thumbs on the carotid; or hallucination, dreams and visions by drugs, or by external stimulation of the nerves.
Stimulation was, in this case impossible, as I made him read fifteen or twenty pages, he calling the letters as suggested each time they occurred.
He follows the operator and servilely imitates his movements, gestures and words; he obeys suggestions, and a stimulation of the nerves induces contraction, but the cataleptic pliability does not exist.
In habitual smokers, this preliminary stimulationmay not occur.
Nicotin causes brief stimulation of brain and spinal cord, followed by depression.
The sensitiveness to electrical stimulation was decreased 14 per cent.
By gradually overcoming the higher brain elements the activities of the lower ones are released, hence the so-called stimulation and the lack of judgment and common sense often shown by those even slightly under the influence of alcohol.
Whatever may be the nature of the process whereby the feelings of his fellows affect a man, that which chiefly concerns us here, is how these reactions differ when the stimulation is multiplex.
The disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system produced by the emotional stress and strain of a great excitement or a great disappointment is reflected in the stimulation or inhibition of glandular action.
Here again the unusual degree of stimulation which catastrophe induces brings about a behavior other than that which commonly attends the experience of grief.
The fact is tolerably well understood that mysticism and the accumulation of superstitious ideas are the result of the over-stimulation of the lower animal instincts.
Through the further stimulation of the lower nature of man its absurdity gradually increased, until under the system calling itself Christian it finally reached its height.
It seems that passive will-resistance is of this kind, since it is most difficult for the will to remain inactive in the presence of carnal stimulation or motions of the sensible appetites without being moved by the evil suggestion.
Caius gives whisky to Julius, who needs its stimulation to nerve himself for a crime), or if it is only an accidental cause (e.
The old have not the strength to throw off the poison of too much stimulation and are accordingly more injured.
The individual is henceforth to supply control, law, and not simply stimulation and initiation.
The categories of accomplished systematization cover alike the just and the unjust, the false and the true, while (unlike God’s rain) they exercise no specific or differential activity of stimulation and control.
Moreover, in some spinal maladies it has effects not to be altogether explained by its mechanical stimulation of the muscles, nerves, and skin.
It is doubtful if any movement of the intestinal muscle-fibres is thus caused, but that it is a useful method of stimulation in obstinate cases may be taken as proved.
It is aroused indirectly by means of a nerve current coming by way of some other brain center, instead of directly by the stimulation of a sense organ, as in the case of a percept.
This stimulation proceeded obviously from a mouse, which I had time to observe in close proximity, as it remained perched on the bedclothes, until my own startled movements put it to flight.
Effect of Vestibular Stimulation on Strychnine-Induced Activity of the Spinal Cord.
Central Nervous System Functions in Weightlessness The wide range of individual tolerances to the disturbing effects of vestibular stimulation has emphasized the importance of this factor in astronaut selection.
The use of brief electrical stimulation of the vestibular nerve in order to elicit a cortical response has been of great value for the mapping of these areas.
Chickens who were being subjected to chronic acceleration were given repeated rotatory stimulationtests to estimate their labyrinthine sensitivity.
Since motion sensitivity based on vestibular stimulation differs widely among individuals, the selection of astronauts may solve the problem of zero-g vestibular disturbance.
Motion of the head in any direction not parallel to the centrifugal force vector would result in bizarre stimulation of the semicircular canals and consequent motion sickness.
The Effects of Vestibular Stimulation on Performance Under Several Schedules of Reinforcement.
Vestibular stimulation by passive means leads to an increase in the RNA content of the Deiters nerve cells of rabbits ([ref.
Brief electrical stimulation of cat cortical tissue causes an increase in nucleic acid cytidine and adenine, thus indicating a synthesis of altered polynucleotides.
From first to last there is a continuous and delightful stimulation of thought.
The educational abomination of desolation of the present day," says Professor Huxley, "is the stimulation of young people to work at high pressure by incessant examinations.
It is from this general stimulation that Guyau explains the aesthetic effect of his famous drink of milk among mountain scenes.
If it were not so, the favorable stimulation combined with repose of the eye would alone make the conditions of beauty.
But it may be said that stimulation and repose are contradictory concepts, and we must indeed admit that the absolute repose of the hypnotic trance is not aesthetic, because empty of stimulus.
The diffusion of stimulationwould be our formula for the aesthetic state only if interpreted as stimulation arresting action.
So far, what we see is only another name for HOW we see; and the way of seeing has proved to contain enough to bring to stimulation and repose the psychophysical mechanism.
Thus in this case, and to sum up, truth is synonymous with beauty, in so far as beauty is constituted by favorable stimulation of an organ.
By melody too, then, is given the perfect moment, the moment of unity and completeness, of stimulation and repose.
Can it be brought under the full aesthetic formula of favorable stimulationwith repose?
Whatever in sense stimulation gives the condition for, helps, furthers, enhances the natural function, is felt both as pleasing and as furthering the particular activity in question.
But such general stimulation might accompany successful action of any kind, and thus the moral and the aesthetic would fall together.
But why should it be just rhythmic stimulation that produces this effect?
Guyau is so successful in his analysis is due rather to the fact that just this diffused stimulation is likely to come from such exercise as is characterized by the mutual checking of antagonistic impulses producing an equilibrium.
As has been indicated, it is here taken to mean any increase in number of leukocytes caused by chemotaxis andstimulation of the blood-producing structures; and includes every increase of leukocytes except that due to leukemia.
Non-phagocytic leukocytosis is probably due more to stimulation of blood-making organs than to chemotaxis.
Increase of leukocytes due to chemotaxis and stimulation of the blood-making organs, or leukocytosis.
This responsive action is clearly an adaptive action, and, as the man neither feels the stimulation nor the resulting movement, it is as clearly a reflex action.
In a wide sense, again, all errors connected with those subjective sensations which arise from a stimulation of the peripheral regions of the nerve may be called illusions rather than hallucinations.
This automatic stimulationhas been plausibly referred to the action of the products of decomposition accumulating in the cerebral blood-vessels.
And if this is so, it is not improbable that many of the apparently forgotten images of persons and places which return with such vividness in dreams are excited by a mode of stimulation which is for the greater part confined to sleep.
It is possible that there is something in the nature of this stimulation to account for the force and vividness of its conscious results, that is to say, of dreams.
This they do to some extent in point of intensity, for, in spite of the diminished excitability of the centres, the mode of stimulation which occurs in sleep may, as I have hinted, involve an energetic cerebral action.
One familiar instance is the stimulation of the nerve running to the hand and fingers, by a sharp blow on the elbow over which it passes.
The very possibility of perception depends on a clear discrimination of sense-elements, for example, the several sensations of colour obtained by the stimulation of different parts of the retina.
It is a law of nervous stimulation that a continued activity of any structure results in less and less psychic result, and that when a stimulus is always at work it ceases in time to have any appreciable effect.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stimulation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
